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Live Character Animation Using Maya And Touch Designer

"Frog from Maya into Touch Designer controlled by Logitech Gamepad interactively"

DMAX: DMX512 control from within Ableton

"If you’re a musician using Live then you can program in your light show in the same environment that you’re programming your music in. And because you can do it as you’re composing, the lighting can be an integral part of the music rather than something tacked on afterwards. When you're performing live, why rely on someone else to interpret your music into lighting events? Simply add DMaX devices to your set and program some modulation data alongside your clips. The effect of perfectly synchronised sound and light is very effective, and your lighting will always stay in sync because it's running from the same system as your music. You can also time events to certain MIDI or audio triggers, for example, by making a strobe flash on every bass drum hit. Outside of direct musical performance, one of my main uses has been to control lighting for dance performances. By importing the performers' backing track, and warping it in slave mode, you can see where the beats are and automate your lighting parameters alongside for beat-synced effects. These are just a few things you could do, the possibilities opened up by this integration are endless."

Python + Maya by Rodrigo Araujo

"It’s possible to access every attribute of any of the nodes on the scene, to create key frames and make complete animations through one script and to access many of the tools provided throughout the menus.

One quick example is how to create a bouncing ball animation."

Listening: Looking at Music and Conversation in the Space

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